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Malaysia’s retail sector is forecast to grow at three percent due to cautious consumer spending, increased subsidy rationalization and introduction of a new goods and services tax.

FAS India recruited and supported a regional delegation of ten delegates to attend Food and Hotel Asia (FHA), Singapore, 2016. The FHA Singapore, a USDA endorsed show, had a record 92 exhibitors.

Turkish soybean area and production for MY 2016 is now estimated about 30,000 hectares and 100,000 MT. Adverse weather conditions have been reported to have affected yields.

The first advance planted area estimates for 2016 indicate that a normal monsoon led to a marginal increase in overall Kharif season planting area. While the area seeded under pulses increased...

The Government of Russia (GOR) published a significantly modified draft of Russian Government Regulation (Resolution) on the quarantine phytosanitary control of imported planting seeds and planting...

The overall food processing sector is growing at about five percent per year, with dairy, bakery, and processed fish products among the leading sectors.

Although Estonian poultry meat production is on a rise, domestic supplies do not cover growing domestic demand.

Estonian Swine inventories are expected to decrease by 15 percent in 2016 due to low levels of farmgate prices for swine, ASF outbreak, and introduction of the Russian import ban in 2014.

Lithuania is the largest poultry meat producer among the Baltic States. In 2015 production of poultry meat amounted to 110,700 MT and was 11 percent higher than in 2014.

The restrictions on exports of pork caused by the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF) and the continuing effect of the Russian ban on imports of live swine resulted in a four percent decrease...

As of January 1, 2017 a new regulations on voluntary marking of foodstuffs with the words “Produkt polski” (Made in Poland) is likely to go into effect in Poland.

Nuts demonstrated the highest levels of growth in sales at six percent value out of all sweet and savory snack foods in the Polish market over the period 2014-2015.